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This is The Sports Reporters.

Here's Mike Lubbica and Mitch Albong.

I'm Mike Lupica of the New York Daily News and MLB.com.

And I'm Mitch Album of the Detroit Free Press and welcome to this edition of the Sports

Reporters podcast, the podcast incarnation of the long-running Sunday morning TV show on ESPN,

where we sat in suits and ties and discussed the sports issues of the week.

Here, the suits and ties.

Well, for all I know, Mike's wearing a suit and tie.

I mean, but...

I'm wearing a tuxedo.

They're not mandatory for podcast. The upside is we get to do it twice a week.

If you could only see how good I look right now, you just take all of that back.

The irony. The irony. Better dressed now than Sunday mornings, and yet we can't see you but you still sound the same

I sound the same frequently and normally we have three members of our panel Bob Ryan is traveling

a little today so Mike and I'll handle it and there's a lot to handle because we got a great

playoff week I used to love doing these weekends on the Sunday morning show because you got to talk about

Saturday's games on Sunday and then preview Sundays games. This way we get to preview them all.

Let's start in the order actually that they're going to play out in the NFL playoffs.

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